Editorial Opera Mini on the iPhone, for now So, today(2010-04-13) it was announced that Opera Mini for the iPhone had been accepted by Apple and indeed it was revealed in the Appstore within a few hours. Many have written on the loophole that Opera used to make this happen; Opera mini
Editorial Using the GPL as a Dual-Licensing Monopolistic Haven Can a company control the use of their software intellectual property more completely if they release it under the open-source GNU General Public License (GPL)? I hadn't really thought about it before, but while researching the OSS position of MySql I read an interesting
Editorial Jeff Atwood of Borg-StackOverflow Careers Assimilation I've found StackOverflow to be a fun and vibrant community as well as an almost daily touchstone for programming and tech problems. Because of my enjoyment of the site I've started listening to the StackOverflow podcast with Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky (my opinion
Editorial Palm Afraid of anti-"TiVoization" Palm Inc. with the release of their Linux powered smartphone called the Pre, now has a vested interest in the group of manufacturers using Linux as their embedded OS. As opposed to companies like Apple and their BSD based OSX in the iPhone Linux